The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-30
SOUTHERN oLEANINes.


A band Of masE ed men attacked the
cabin of Adam NJ Hard, colored, on a
plantation near Cutnbert, Ga, few days
ago, killing and wounding several of the
inmates. The attack grew out of an en-
counter between Mollard's son and Buck
Smith, the owner Of the plantation, in
which the former was shot and slightly
wounded. On the night before the attack
on the cabin a load of buckshot was fired
into Smiths bedroom, but no damage re
suited.
General VIM. Preston died at Lexing-
ton, KY, few days since, surrounded by
his family. He had been i'll since July
His remains were buried at Louisville.
The jury at Baton Rouge, La, in the
case of ex-Secretary of State w. A. Strong
returned a verdict of guilty as charged.
Strong was indicted for the embezzlement
of about S3, 600 of the States money in con.
nection with the sale of election-ticket pa.
per.
Dick Gibbs, colored, aged sixteen, and
Ulysses Price, white, eighteen, had a fight
at Hawesville, KY, few days ago. They
fought at first with their fists, but Gibbs
being too much for Price, the latter seized
an axe which was lying near and split his
adversary's head with it. Price imme-
diately fed.
The Georgia Senate has passed its SUBJ
stitute for the Glenn bill by vote of % to
13. The bill merely withdraws the State
money from educational institutions
where races are mixed and makes gradu.
ates ineligible for teachers places.
A general fight took place among
large gang of railroad negroes near Wit
ton, Botetourt County, Va, a few days
ago, in which many were wounded, and
one man named Ross will die. The origin
of the difficulty is not known.
Joseph Baum & Co, wholesale dealers
in general merchandise at Meridian,
Miss, have made an assignment. Their
Liabilities and assets are placed at $3.50, ,000
each. The principal creditors are in Phil
adelphia.
Mrs. Minerva Beard died at her home in
Owensboro, KY, a few nights ago, in the
seventy year of her age. Her
maiden name was Boone, and she was
niece of Daniel Boone, the Kentucky
pioneer. She has one brother living, Mr..
Lafayette Boone, of New Madrid, Mo.
Calvin Antry is lying at the house of his
father, Samuel A. Antry, at Alphraetta,
Ga, at the point of death. His forehead
is crushed in, his nose is smashed into q
jelly and his eyes are protruding. Calvin
met this misfortune while trying to play
the role of ghost.
Mr.. CASTOR MCGEE, of Guntown, Miss,
died at the CovenesS House, in jackson,
Tenn, few days ago. he a promi-
nent merchant who had been to st. Louis
with his family to buy goods. He was
taken seriously i'll, suddenly, en- route for
home. When he arrived in jackson he was
carried to the hotel, where he soon died
with his family around him. His remains
were shipped home for interment.
The Atlanta Constitution pleasantly re-
marks: Twenty three years ago yester-
day a route agent named W. T. Sherman
piloted the biggest party Of excursionists
into Atlanta that ever visited Georgia.
Efforts were made to entertain the party
here, but they decided to extend their trip
to Savannah"
The rear portion of freight train on the
South Carolina railroad broke loose a
few days since while the train was run
ming on down grade between st. Math
ews and Singleton. After a mOmentary
check it crashed into the front section.
w. A. Perkins, a brakeman, was crushed
to death.
Judge Jackson Graham, an old SCHOOL
mate of Abraham Lincoln, was buried in
Milton County, Ca, recently. Judge
Graham was born in Green County, KY,
on the 28th day of September, 1915, and
was in his seventy second year. He held
many responsible places Of public trust in
his county. Pr iOr to the war he was en-
gagged extensively in the stock trade be.
tv cen Kentucky and Georgia, and when
bu6 W III COLuHlelCeu uo ldu inc IAES6Sb
business in this line between the two
States.
Jack Debose, the negro arrested on sus-
piciOns of numbering the Voolfolk family,
at Canton, Ga, has confessed his guilt.
His motive was revenge for alleged i'll
treatment by Captain Voolfolk. Debose
claims that he did not actually Kill the
people, but that three negro accomplices
entered the house and committed the
TOol,.
He says he saw Tom Voolfolk jump from
a window and run for his life. Tom, who
has been under arrest for the crime, will
doubtless be released.
A Lake City (Fla.) correspondent SAYS
a movement has been started in Lake
County which is rapidly spreading all
over the State, for the organization of a
shippers union, to regulate the sale and
shipment of oranges, lemons and other
fruits. The plan is to dispense with the
present commission men in the Northern
and Western cities, and placed there in
stead trusted agents of the union. The
| hope is felt that tho-e will not only ar
! range a larger return for the sales from
! the North, but that it will raise the
! prices of the products also.
| w. I. w oOd, aged forty five years, and
/ formerly q merchant of Murfreesboro,
| Tenn, died few days ago from an over
dose OF morphine administered by his own
| hands. Woods arrived in the city in COM
! pany with his brother-in-law, DR.. J. E..
| Binnis, from Cincinnati, where he was
! taken some weeks ago for treatment of an
/ alteration of the mind. He found no re-
! lief there, and was on his return home.
| Woods took morphine during the night,
and was in a dying condition when found.
| Greek George and John Muhler wrestle-
| ed GrBco- Roman at Chattanooga a few
nights ago in the presence of 1000 people.
| Muller won the first fall and George the
second, in thirty minutes each. In the
| third trial George claimed a foul. John
| Shinl1le, referee, would not allow it, and
| controversy ensued, in which George and
| Shinkle came to blows, the latter pulled
| pistol. Muller interposed and consented
| to give George the fall. Shinkle skipped
/ town. The contest was for $3.50 a side.
| Yellow fever is dead at Pensacola.
| John Halloway, who left Alpharetta,
| Ga, in 1855, to seek his fortune in tn e
/ West, had not been heard from for many
| years, and his relatives supposed him to
/ be dead. A few days since he appeared
at the family homestead just in time to
| participate in the celebration Of his par
] ents' golden wedding He is a prosperous
/ farmer in Nebraska.
! Nathaniel Brown. colored, living near
/ Corinth, Miss, became violently insane a
/ few days since. His relatives tried to take
/ care of him at home, but he eluded their
/ vigilance, and seeking the home of his
! grandmother Drained her with billet of
wood. He is now in custody.
Jonathan Mills, aged eighty-six, died re-
/ Gently in Columbia, Tenn.
! J. J. Bell, for seven years an inmate Of
4 the county asylum near Franklin, XIV, re-
/ Gently received $500 from the Govern
4 ment as pension money for service in the
/ Union army. He has since been married
/ to Mrs. Polly Ann Shea, aged sixty-seven
years, who had been his companion in the